According to Xinhua News Agency, Du Baichuan (deputy director of the technology section of China's TV regulator, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television) has announced that China will make a second attempt at launching a working satellite that can broadcast television directly to homes, sometime in September or October. Chinasat-9 will provide broadcasts to areas that are home to 98% of China's population. Chinasat-9 was meant to operate in tandem with Sinosat-2, the country's first direct-broadcast television satellite, but Sinosat-2 failed after its launch in October. China has one of the world's biggest television markets, with 400 million sets and 12.6 million digital TV subscribers, according to the country’s government.
News source: Physorg
News source: Physorg
The PR of China isn't a communist state. The ruling party might want you to think so, but it isn't. Last time I saw Beijing there were multinational fast food chains. The state doesn't border on socialism, never mind communism.
The PR of China isn't a communist state. The ruling party might want you to think so, but it isn't. Last time I saw Beijing there were multinational fast food chains. The state doesn't border on socialism, never mind communism.
Exactly, China isn't even remotely communist. They are actually becoming more capitalist every day, with the exploitation of the worker class, who have to work for ultr-low substistence wages, being worse than in most other countries of the world.
There are no free social services either, like e.g. Health Insurance, so the poor people (land population, students etc.) can either work their ass off until they drop or die. Recently there was an article on how they simply let a student die just because he couln't afford a medical treatment he needed. It was rather cheap even ($20). I'm sure there are may other cases like this, with this one being the only one that made it through censorship somehow.
"China will make a second attempt at launching a working satellite that can
broadcastcensor television"Moo.
Moo, I say.
Moooo!
lol...
lol...
Hey, this is actually rocket science we're talking about here, OK? Even NASA screws up (with alarming regularity) so cut the chinese some slack.
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